A cougar hit and killed by a car in Connecticut set a record this week when it was found to hail from the Black Hills of South Dakota. While the 140-pound cat is unprecedented in its wanderings, wildlife biologists say that many wild animals have started recolonizing old habitats — or establishing new ones. From…
We frequently read or hear on the news of animals being rescued from someone or some place where the animals have just been left to fend for themselves. Unfortunately too often that call comes too late for many of the animals to be saved. They have been left in pens that are too small for…
AP– In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, Australian explosive detection dog Sabi is photographed … SYDNEY – A bomb-sniffing dog that disappeared during a fierce battle in Afghanistan between Australian troops and militant fighters has been found and returned to its unit after more than a year. And Sabi the black labrador is…
LONDON (Reuters) – Etiquette expert and Reuters columnist Mary M. Mitchell found that using a dog as an intermediary helped to take the sting out of tricky discussions with a treasured friend.
Mitchell created an email personality for her French bulld…
PHOENIX — The Arizona Humane Society is in hot water after euthanizing an area man’s 9-month-old kitten. According to ABC15.com, Daniel Dockery’s cat was not fatally wounded and would have lived, but the Arizona Humane Society euthanized it after Dockery relinquished his ownership in an attempt to save the kitten. Below are more details about…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With sick and dead dolphins turning up along Louisiana‘s coast, federal regulators are curbing an oil and natural gas exploration company from using seismic equipment that sends out underwater pulses known to disturb marine mammals. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has told Global Geophysical Services Inc. to not conduct deep-penetration…
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – A jumping mouse with a tail longer than its body has returned to the threatened species list in Wyoming after a court ruling. A federal judge in Denver last month ruled against a two-state classification for the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the mouse as threatened…
The Obamas welcome Bo, a six-month old Portuguese water dog and a gift from
Senator and Mrs. Kennedy to Sasha and Malia, recently at the White House.
TAIPEI (AFP) – Taiwan, one of the world’s major shark catchers, announced plans on Sunday to tighten measures against hunting the ocean predator for its fin, the island’s top fisheries official said Sunday. Taiwan fishermen are already barred from tossing sharks back into the water to die after slicing off the fin — a delicacy…
SYDNEY (AFP) – Tsunami-hit Japan may find sympathy from other nations at this year’s global whaling meeting, but this should not cloud opposition to killing whales, Australian minister Tony Burke said Monday. As the chronically deadlocked International Whaling Commission (IWC) is set to begin a four-day meet in Jersey, many Japanese coastal communities have yet…